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ex-dreams – The Alternative Mid-century Architecture
Isbn 9784991145612
Publisher Gaden Books
Idea code 23187
€ 63.00
From metal-clad houses to skyscrapers, aluminium’s futuristic image became increasingly prominent in American architecture during the 20th century, influencing everything from roadside diners built in the Googie style to later postmodernism. This book features a selection of American and Japanese architectural precedents built during the transitional period from modern to postmodern architecture, depicted in photographs, drawings, illustrations, and even cartoons. Deepening an understanding of these complex trends is an essay by Tomoyuki Gondo, plus interviews and discussions with various experts in the field such as Lloyd Khan, Victor Newlove, and Seng Kuan.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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AV Monographs 249-250: Rafael Moneo
Isbn 9788412604481
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23121
€ 85.30
Acclaimed architect Rafael Moneo features in this special double issue. In the 21st century, Moneo has continued the versatile approach to the discipline which has sustained his reputation since the start of his professional career in the 1970s. From cultural buildings and healthcare facilities to commercial complexes and highly contextual projects, he demonstrates a combination of rigour and freedom that has visibly impacted architectural culture in his native Spain. Setting out from some of his earliest works, the monograph advances chronologically through the decades, highlighting Moneo’s most exemplary projects. Includes an essay by the architect, “Time Present and Time Past”.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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AMAG 30 + AMAG PT 01 (special limited offer pack)
Isbn 9789895390625
Publisher AMAG Publisher
Idea code 23188
€ 53.65
Receive a free copy of the first issue of ‘AMag PT’, a new series exclusively dedicated to Portuguese architecture, together with the purchase of ‘AMag’ 30. It features detailed profiles of seven projects from Diogo Aguiar Studio. Established in 2016, the studio operates across the fields of architecture and art, designing small buildings and interiors, as well as temporary or fixed spatial installations destined for the public space. ‘AMag’ 30 focuses on work by three Scandinavian practices: Ateljé Ö (Sweden), Johansen Skovsted Arkitekter (Denmark), and NORRØN (Denmark), highlighting an intersection of approaches and common values: functionalism, empiricism, and mastery.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, Portuguese/Spanish/English
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Project Stories Vol. 02: Architectural Practice Today
Isbn 9788269185652
Publisher Bergen School of Architecture
Idea code 23152
€ 37.50
‘Project Stories’ invites an eclectic constellation of architectural practices from across the globe to tell the story of one of their significant built works. Each volume brings together three such stories accompanied by conversations with the individual architects. These behind-the-scenes examinations chronicle how an idea is conceived, revealing the diverse approaches and confluences of various fields that go into making a work of architecture. The series takes the form of a visual reader as a way to better conceptualise the works and practices, all equally diverse and equally legitimate. This second volume features BARarchitekten, Francesca Torzo Architetto, and Wolff Architects.
344 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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a+u 631 23:04 Alvar Aalto Library Landscapes
Isbn 9784900212893
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23161
€ 23.90
This issue features ten public libraries designed by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto between the 1920s and 1970s. It was after the completion of the Vyborg Library, a project which began in 1927 and took seven years to complete, that the architect started to gain international recognition. While designing Vyborg Library, Aalto discovered “fantastic mountain landscapes”, leading him to create valley-like depressions as spaces for people to gather and read, surrounded by stepped terraces of bookshelves and natural light. Among the libraries presented here are Rovaniemi City Library, Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University, Wolfsburg Cultural Center, and Mount Angel Abbey.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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a+u 630 23:03 Heatherwick Studio
Isbn 9784900212886
Publisher Shinkenchiku-sha
Idea code 23140
€ 23.90
Based in London, Heatherwick Studio is a multi-award-winning design and architecture office. Discover how lead architect Thomas Heatherwick, a self-proclaimed “maker in the world of designing buildings”, achieved international acclaim through notable works such as Maggie’s Yorkshire (Leeds), Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town), Coal Drops Yard (London), Little Island (New York City), Bund Finance Centre (Shanghai), Learning Hub (Singapore), and more. Besides featuring more than fifteen built and unbuilt projects, the issue includes essays by Ruth Conroy Dalton and Heatherwick Studio, as well as the architect in conversation with curator and writer Mami Kataoka.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Modern Architecture: A Planetary Warming History
Isbn 9789492058164
Publisher The Architecture Observer
Idea code 23146
€ 32.50
Modern architecture is inseparably linked with the Industrial Revolution. Industrially manufactured materials such as iron, steel, reinforced concrete, glass, asbestos, and later also plastics, have helped to make architecture modern. The Industrial Revolution also set planetary warming in motion. Thus, it is not far-fetched to claim that there are also correlations between modern architecture and planetary warming. This book is a rough sketch of a proposed history of modern architecture since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It aims to break away from the established neural networks of the profession’s collective memory of how modern architecture’s history has unfolded, and offers the beginning of a rewiring: by introducing new actors, and highlighting ideas and projects that deal with climate and environment, while relegating some of the usual stars of modernism and postmodernism to the background.
400 p, ills bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Julia Gaisbacher - My Dreamhome is not a House
Isbn 9781908889850
Publisher The Velvet Cell
Idea code 23180
€ 47.00
"My Dreamhouse is not a House" is a long-term project by Julia Gaisbacher that focuses on the Austrian architect Eilfried Huth and one of the first, publicly funded participatory social housing projects in Austria from the 1970s. Huth developed a working method that allowed architects and future residents to collaborate on equal terms, resulting in single, occupant-designed houses within residential blocks. His projects were unique because no participatory approach was available outside the privately financed market in Austria at that time. About 50 years later, Julia Gaisbacher started an artistic research project observing the results of Eilfried Huth’s architectural experiment. In interviews, she asked residents how they had experienced the participatory planning process and its impacts on the long-term living quality in these built environments and combined them with archive material. On a visual level she documented the unique facades of the houses each representing the owners.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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The Courthouse - Architecture for the Public
Isbn 9789462087057
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23168
€ 38.85
The new Amsterdam Courthouse exudes approachable authority by adhering to the principle that the judicial process is a public matter. Designed by KAAN Architecten, it provides an interesting case study in the discourse around the commissioning and designing of public buildings on a local, national, and international level. Produced and compiled by the architects, this book goes behind the scenes to reveal the courthouse as Gesamtkunstwerk – both a project and a process. Featuring in-depth analyses supported by detailed illustrations, construction photographs, and technical drawings, it clarifies the demands of architectural conceptualisation and public-private partnerships.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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C3 423 Parking for Good, Small Additions
Isbn 20925190
Publisher C3 Publishing
Idea code 23096
€ 28.80
C3 423 presents several contemporary developments in architectural practice."Parking for good: the public garages gradually turning cities green" shows projects that are innovative examples of how towns can accommodate cars with Antwerp’s new sustainable Park + Ride and the world’s largest bicycle parking in Utrecht. "Small Additions: the interface between now and then", about building extensions that play a role in emphasizing the value and presence of an existing building while responding to the need for additional space. With Robert Koch High School by SSP Rüthnick Architekten and Biot Municipal Building Extension by Atelier EGR. "Sport Halls and Spirituality", shows projects by :mlzd and Nikken Sekkei."Living with Trees in the Sky" looks at three recent examples that are a radical departure from the hard and inert look of normal high-rise architecture which exposes concrete, steel and glass. The first generation of high-rise residential buildings in which vegetation is designed into all levels is emerging. Projects by MVRDV and the first visibly green towers in a Taiwanese city by WOHA.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Korean/English
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Arquitectura Viva 251: Mario Cucinella
Isbn 02141256
Publisher Avisa
Idea code 23099
€ 22.75
The visible head of one of Italy’s busiest architecture practices, Mario Cucinella is the author of numerous projects which, more than a distinctive style, share a fundamental idea: the use of technology in making headway towards the goal of environmental sustainability and a better society. Arquitectura Viva now presents four of his public works that attest to this ecological and civic commitment: offices in Ferrara, a community center in Peccioli, a church in Mormanno, and a museum in Milan.
80 p, ils colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Transitional Landscapes
Isbn 9788822908094
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 23171
€ 45.15
This collection reflects on the theme of “transition” in all of its nuances. In politics and the international scientific community, transition is interpreted as a condition that calls for redesigning or rethinking spaces and flows (human and non-human) for a new relational ecology between bodies and inhabited contexts. The book considers landscapes in transition and their repercussions on urban planning, both on a local and global scale. The various essays develop innovative reflections, especially in reference to the urban fringe, abandoned and polluted areas, and landscapes at natural and environmental risk, looking into enhancing their ecological and environmental potential.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Log 56: The Model Behavior Exhibition
Isbn 9781736500743
Publisher Anyone Corporation
Idea code 23042
€ 22.55
This special issue is the cataLog for “Model Behavior,” a group exhibition of models, architectural and otherwise, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York. The exhibition questioned the role of the model in projecting or eliciting social behaviour. In addition to documenting the 55 exhibited works with four-colour images and project descriptions, the cataLog includes essays by curator Cynthia Davidson; by architecture theorists Jörg H. Gleiter, Kiel Moe, and Christophe Van Gerrewey; and by art historian Annabel Jane Wharton.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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